HMS Ocean navigating the Thames barrier

[Mr_B]

Huh, 10 mins after I say there's a Lynx about but no Typhoons, sounds like one Typhoon is currently over the Dartford area, can't see a bloody thing though....

[Godalmighty83]

Ocean is a good name for a big ship and has a fair bit of history behind it, the new carriers though....that's a bad naming scheme, of the hundreds of awesome and historic names to choose from they name them after a pair of benefits scroungers.

Personally I would have gone for Centaur and Cerberus.

[Simpo Two]

Godalmighty83 said:

of the hundreds of awesome and historic names to choose from they name them after a pair of benefits scroungers.

Big Liz for PM any day. With no politics to worry about, they could get on with running the country.

[MartG]

Simpo Two said:

A bit French though.

How many of these from 1805 are currently taken?

HMS Victory is still officially comissioned

[Yertis]

This is easily the most interesting bit of the whole olympics.

I wonder if this is what a coup would look like?

[Simpo Two]

Yertis said:

This is easily the most interesting bit of the whole olympics. I wonder if this is what a coup would look like?

Interesting idea... the Captain of HMS Ocean is quite well placed to point his guns (if it has any) through the House of Commons window and say 'Hand over the woolsack' or whatever.

Battleship Potemkin etc.

[Tango13]

Simpo Two said:

Interesting idea... the Captain of HMS Ocean is quite well placed to point his guns (if it has any) through the House of Commons window and say 'Hand over the woolsack' or whatever.

Battleship Potemkin etc.

I believe the guns of HMS Belfast are trained on Scratchwood services on the M1. If the Breech Blocks were to be replaced and they were to drop some 4.5" HE on Westminster Palace instead the return on investment would be off the scale...

[cpufreak]

Tango13 said:

I believe the guns of HMS Belfast are trained on Scratchwood services on the M1. If the Breech Blocks were to be replaced and they were to drop some 4.5" HE on Westminster Palace instead the return on investment would be off the scale...

Not really.

The piddly amount it costs to support them, is chicken feed compared to the revenue driven by tourists attracted to the Royal family and the history of this country.

Go take your hater views else where, please.

[grumbledoak]

cpufreak said:

Go take your hater views else where, please.

Westminster != Buckingham

[anonymous-user]

Anyone know when HMS Ocean departs?? I live right on the river at Woolwich and have missed Bulwark, Ark Royal, Illustrious and various other warships in the past.

[Tango13]

cpufreak said:

Tango13 said:

I believe the guns of HMS Belfast are trained on Scratchwood services on the M1. If the Breech Blocks were to be replaced and they were to drop some 4.5" HE on Westminster Palace instead the return on investment would be off the scale...

Not really.

The piddly amount it costs to support them, is chicken feed compared to the revenue driven by tourists attracted to the Royal family and the history of this country.

Go take your hater views else where, please.

Not good with London landmarks are you? Westminster Palace is better known as the Houses of Parliment. You know the place, it's where all the scumbag politicians hang out...

[anonymous-user]

djstevec said:

Anyone know when HMS Ocean departs?? I live right on the river at Woolwich and have missed Bulwark, Ark Royal, Illustrious and various other warships in the past.

Well Greenwich council managed to answer my question with a nice leaflet in my mailbox tonight....here till 15th May and back on 13th July for the games.

[housen]

Stuck In A Lift said:

Where is the best place to view this from?

Hehe , noisy gits with their helicopter manoeuvres all day

Edited by housen on Monday 7th May 20:36

[anonymous-user]

housen said:

Stuck In A Lift said:

Where is the best place to view this from?

Hehe , noisy gits with their helicopter manoeuvres all day

NICE!!

Wood Wharf?
Ex work colleague used to live there....she hated the noise of the engines at night!!


eta - we have the same coffee table!!

Edited by djstevec on Monday 7th May 20:40

eta 2 - Just realised your'e on the north side!

Edited by djstevec on Monday 7th May 20:42

[housen]

djstevec said:

housen said:

Stuck In A Lift said:

Where is the best place to view this from?

Hehe , noisy gits with their helicopter manoeuvres all day

NICE!!

Wood Wharf?
Ex work colleague used to live there....she hated the noise of the engines at night!!

Ty, Otherside st David's sq , can't hear engines just helicopters

Oh cool I got mine off eBay I won't tell u how much ;-)

[anonymous-user]

housen said:

djstevec said:

housen said:

Stuck In A Lift said:

Where is the best place to view this from?

Hehe , noisy gits with their helicopter manoeuvres all day

NICE!!

Wood Wharf?
Ex work colleague used to live there....she hated the noise of the engines at night!!

Ty, Otherside st David's sq , can't hear engines just helicopters

Yeah just figured that!! Wood Wharf is the building on left side of the first pic.

I keep missing these coming past my flat. Illustrious, Bulwark, Ark Royal, all gone past my living room.

eta - yeah dont tell me how much u paid...I WILL cry!

Edited by djstevec on Monday 7th May 20:52

[mph1977]

cpufreak said:

Tango13 said:

I believe the guns of HMS Belfast are trained on Scratchwood services on the M1. If the Breech Blocks were to be replaced and they were to drop some 4.5" HE on Westminster Palace instead the return on investment would be off the scale...

Not really.

The piddly amount it costs to support them, is chicken feed compared to the revenue driven by tourists attracted to the Royal family and the history of this country.

Go take your hater views else where, please.

as has been pointed out by at least one other person the Palace of Westminster is not a royal home, it is the 'workplace' of CMD + nick, the millipede brothers plus 600 odd other prats who think they know the answers ...

now that nice mr Fawkes had an idea with merit ...

[mybrainhurts]

housen said:

Oops sry thought u said tell haha sry wasn't trying to be a tt !!!!

I stuck that into Google translate and it blew up...

[anonymous-user]

She's back at Greenwich tonight.

and

There will be a chance to look around the Mighty O on Sunday afternoon when the Royal Navy open her up to the public.

She will be open to visitors from 10am – 3pm with boat transfers operating from Greenwich Pier. Visitors should queue up in the grounds of the Old Royal Naval College where there will be a bag search point.

http://www.greenwich.co.uk/news/08614-hms-ocean-re...

[Cheib]

mph1977 said:

the primary problem that is faced for an air defence point of view is lack of airfield space close to London and Apaches and lynx operating off Ocean are a convenient way to help with that issue

while fixed wing QRA arrangements are being varied for the Olympic period , the helicopters are another part of the plan ...

They could easily base the helicopter at Stapleford Aerodrome

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=stapleford+aerodro...fficial&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=X&ei=7_f_T_71KpTB0gXT4rDCBw&ved=0CE0Q_AUoAg

It's inside the M25 and probably 5 mins flying time to the Olympic Park.

I am sure as others have said it's about HMS Ocean providing an all in one logisitics package and the statement.